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This is one of three temporary signs. We really couldn't decide why they were temporary; other than no text. However, the picture seems self explanatory other than the date it was taken.
1937 Conrad Davis, 47, and Jessie Rojas, 39, apparently unable to jump, were killed, crushed beneath tons of coal that spilled from a train that derailed.
“Seven Bodies Under Big Earth Slide in Canyon”. Slightly more than a week later, another worker, James “Blackie Emerson, 34, was killed and two co-workers injured when a seven-ton steel beam collapsed in a tunnel leading to the dam’s power house.
About six months after that deadly March, three more men were killed on Sept. 3, 1937, while digging a trench.
1937 Conrad Davis, 47, and Jessie Rojas, 39, apparently unable to jump, were killed, crushed beneath tons of coal that spilled from a train that derailed.
“Seven Bodies Under Big Earth Slide in Canyon”. Slightly more than a week later, another worker, James “Blackie Emerson, 34, was killed and two co-workers injured when a seven-ton steel beam collapsed in a tunnel leading to the dam’s power house.
About six months after that deadly March, three more men were killed on Sept. 3, 1937, while digging a trench.